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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Renton Technical College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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